CCISC 2026 Speakers

 

Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Feifei Gao, Tsinghua University, China (IEEE Feollow)

Feifei Gao (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China in 2002, the M.Sc. degree from McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2007. Since 2011, he joined the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, where he is currently a tenured full professor.Prof. Gao's research interests include signal processing for communications, array signal processing, convex optimizations, and artificial intelligence assisted communications. He has authored/coauthored more than 200 refereed IEEE journal papers and more than 150 IEEE conference proceeding papers that are cited more than 22000 times in Google Scholar. Prof. Gao has served as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (Lead Guest Editor), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (Senior Editor), IEEE Communications Letters (Senior Editor), IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and China Communications. He has also served as the symposium co-chair for 2019 IEEE Conference on Communications (ICC), 2018 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Spring (VTC), 2015 IEEE Conference on Communications (ICC), 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2014 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall (VTC), as well as Technical Committee Members for more than 50 IEEE conferences.

 

 

Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Zhou Liang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (IEEE Fellow)

Liang ZHOU, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, as well as the vice president. His main research direction is multimedia communication and networks. In recent years, he has published numerous academic papers in IEEE/ACM Trans. and other prestigious journals, and has presided over key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Multimedia Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society, the Director of the Communication Theory and Signal Processing Committee of the China Communications Society, and is invited to be an editorial board member of academic journals such as IEEE Wireless Communications and China Communications. He has received academic honors including the Cheung Kong Scholars Program Professorship from the Ministry of Education (2020), the National "Outstanding Young Scientist Fund" (2013), and the National "Overseas High-Level Young Talent" (2012).

 

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Benjamin W. Wah, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (IEEE Fellow)

Benjamin W. Wah is currently the Provost and Wei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also serves as the Chair of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. Before then, he served as the Director of the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore, as well as the Franklin W. Woeltge Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, in 1979. He has received a number of awards for his research contributions, which include the IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award (1998), the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE-CS W. WallaceMcDowell Award (2006), the Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award (2006), the IEEE-CS Richard E. Merwin Award (2007), the IEEE-CS Tsutomu Kanai Award (2009), and the Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley (2011). Wah's current research interests are in the areas of big data applications and multimedia signal processing. Wah cofounded the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering in 1988 and served as its Editor-in-Chief between 1993 and 1996, and is the Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge and Information Systems. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Information Sciences, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, and World Wide Web. He has served the IEEE Computer Society in various capacities, including Vice President for Publications (1998 and 1999) and President (2001). He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE.

 

 

Keynote Speaker IV

Prof. Junhui Zhao, Beijing Jiaotong University, China (IEEE Senior Member)

Junhui Zhao(S’00-M’04-SM’09) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1998 and 2004, respectively. From 1998 to 1999, he worked with Nanjing Institute of Engineers at ZTE Corporation. Then, he worked as an Assistant Professor in 2004 at the Faculty of Information Technology, Macao University of Science and Technology, and continued there till 2007 as an Associate Professor. In 2008, he joined Beijing Jiaotong University as an Associate Professor, where he is currently a Professor at the School of Electronic and Information Engineering. Since 2016, he is also with the School of Information Engineering in East China Jiaotong University. Meanwhile, he was also a short term Visiting Scholar at Yonsei University, South Korea in 2004 and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 2013 to 2014. His current research interests include wireless communication, internet of things, and information processing in traffic.

 

 

Keynote Speaker V

Prof. Zhigeng Pan, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

Zhigeng Pan got his Ph.D degree in 1993, and he became a full professor in Zhejiang University in 1996 because of his excellent academic performance. He has published more than 100 technical papers on important journals (such as PAMI, TVCG, IEEE Multimedia,..) and conferences (such as ACM Multimedia, IEEE VR, et al ). He is a member of IEEE, ACM SIGGRAPH. His research interests include virtual reality, computer graphics and HCI. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of <Transactions on Edutainment>. He is the program co-chair of CASA 2011, SIGGRAPH Asia 2011 (Sketches and Posters), IEEE VR 2013,SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 (Symposium on Education), and the conference co-chair of VRCAI 2012/ VRCAI 2013/VRCAI 2015/CW 2016.